SaaSs are scammy especially when they involve: - Repackaging an existing codebase or business model - ... as a black box - ... attempting to rent it out - .

SaaSs are scammy especially when they involve: - Repackaging an existing codebase or business model - ... as a black box - ... attempting to rent it out - ... with worse data privacy - ... exploiting systemic economic excesses - ... ... inflicting societal harm - ... ... often with minimal upside to the consumer short-term - ... ... or long-term - ... colluding with large existing players - ... ... to create a treadmill of declining product quality - ... ... to facilitate government surveillance and information operations - ... ... to "play defense" against competitors It's kind of like how OOP was intended to stratify and contain developers, except instead of abstracting commodity PCs there's a whole different calculus which basically implies that the ultimate consumer of computing equipment is like, 2 or 3 big companies, because financing. You know how the old democratic saying goes, "none of us is as strong as the 2-3 permanent CEOs of reality."